Author: Datuk Mohammad Medan Abdullah

Trail blazers fired on spirit of solidarity

I have not met anyone yet who does not like the hit song ‘You Raise Me Up’ — a song originally composed by the Norwegian-Irish duo Secret Garden, the music being written by Secret Garden’s Rolf Lovland and the lyrics by Brendan Graham. The song is one of my favourites,

Globalisation of business

TAKE A STEP BACK   In this second of a two-part series, the writer reminisces about his Petronas journey following his graduation in 1982.    Sometime back, when I was helming MLNG, there was the Petronas initiative, the brainchild of Tan Sri Mohd Hassan Marican, to try and capture the

From scholar to employee

In this first of a two-part series, the writer gives a peek into his Petronas journey following his graduation in 1982. Part two will appear next week. I was one of six law students from Sarawak in our batch of the law class of 1978/79-1981/82 at the University of Malaya.

My sape journey and its lessons

MY journey of learning how to play the sape, the ubiquitous traditional stringed lute of Borneo, is a metaphor in the search for one’s roots.   Like the leaves of the trees, which will never go far but will eventually fall to the ground at the base of the tree